Product Description

mi!SmallCellPHY™ is based on a modular architecture and flexible interfaces to enable fast porting and easy adaptation to specific system modules. Since the LTE standard is defined for a large range of system capabilities, the software has been made highly configurable. This enables tailoring of the required features and efficient utilization of the available hardware resources; reduction of the required resources will minimize the bill of materials for the end device. The software is fully compliant with 3GPP Release 8. The design benefits from the strong experience of mimoOn in high performance algorithms for multi-antenna systems. This is a crucial feature for efficient spectrum usage and maximal data throughput within the system. This means among other features, 64QAM modulation at highest data rates, and all MIMO modes such as SISO, SM, and SFBC.

Key Features

• 3GPP Releases 8 and 9 Fully Compliant LTE PHY
• Entirely Software Defined, Easy to Customize and Upgrade
• Designed in ANSI C for Portability and Scalability
• Optimized for Low Memory, Processing Power, and Power Consumption
• Innovative Algorithms such as Advanced Schedulers for Enhanced Spectrum Efficiency
• Advanced Femtocell Innovations such as Performance-Optimized MIMO
• Comprehensive and Configurable Debug Infrastructure
• Used by Tier 1 Small Cell Vendors
• Quick Time-to-Market and Low Risk

Key Specifications

• 3GPP Releases 8 and 9 with a roadmap to Release 10
• FDD/TDD
• All DL channels implemented (PBCH, PCFICH, PDCCH, PDSCH, PHICH, PSS/SSS)
• SISO and all MIMO modes (transmit diversity, large delay CDD, closed loop spatial multiplexing)
• DL power control
• All resource allocation types (including virtual resource blocks)
• All UL channels implemented (SRS, PRACH, PUCCH, PUSCH)
• All hopping modes included
• Channel estimation and timing measurement
• Interference estimation
• HARQ control

Platforms

Texas Instruments are the world leading supplier of high performance DSPs for wireless infrastructure. mimoOn’s mi!SmallCellPHY™ software has been integrated on TI’s C66xx highly flexible, scaleable processors targeting LTE products.

TI’s C66xx KeyStone series processors allow equipment manufacturers the advantages of design and code reuse, since the processors can be scaled to meet both the intensive processing demands of macro basestations, as well as the new generation of LTE Base Stations.

mimoOn offers the 3GPP LTE Stack software package mi!SmallCellSTACK™ for many types of stack processors. The implementation is in ANSI C/C++ and is suitable to be ported to a wide variety of embedded Processors, and can also be used for simulation on a PC platform.

For more information on TI's small cell solutions, please click here.

Tensilica® Inc., are a leader in efficient dataplane processor (DPU) IP cores for advanced mobile wireless & infrastructure SOCs (system-on-chips). Tensilica’s ConnX Baseband Engine (BBE) and Atlas LTE Reference designs will be available with mimoOn’s mi!SmallCellPHY™ software.

Tensilica’s ConnX BBE based wireless radio platform enables efficient baseband processing for 3G, LTE and 4G wireless equipment. The combination of Tensilica’s optimized high-performance DSPs (digital signal processors) and controllers integrated in a single DPU platform provides designers with the ability to make the right tradeoffs between size, power and programmability to meet the challenging needs of the next generation radios.

Tensilica's Xtensions Partner Program brings its LTE (Long Term Evolution) baseband handset and base station design customers a robust infrastructure of top-tier  partners in SOC (system-on-chip) design-critical areas such as LTE physical layer software solutions, system level modeling, real time operating systems emulation, and design services.

For more information on Tensilica's ConnX solutions, please click here